I must just be living in the wrong area of the country:)  Maybe I should
think about moving from the anti-intellectual South to another
anti-intellectual area of the country:) At any rate, I do own my own
consulting/contracting firm and I do make more than my workers (so far).
However, I did not create the mess we have here in the Southeast with
lowball archaeology.  The firms that existed here before me did and they set
a hard precedence to overcome.

Dan Allen
Cumberland Research Group, Inc.
and GRA
the Center for Historic Preservation @ MTSU

----- Original Message -----
From: "ned heite" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 3:02 PM
Subject: pay


>I would be delighted to carry off a site where my top field pay would
> get a mere $20 an hour.  Barrow pushers here get $12.50  and the guys
> who handle the same end of the trowel two times in a row get premium.
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 18, 2004, at 3:00 AM, mike wrote:
>
>>
>> In a message dated 9/17/2004 6:35:24 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>>> No one around here makes $20 per hour excavating in the field anyway.
>>>  Top
>>> pay is around $16 per hour for  field directors and PI's, unless
>>> you're the
>>> senior or own the company.
>>>
>>
>> No, no.  That is a myth perpetuated. If you OWN the company you make
>> LESS
>> than most of the crew.  Ask any CRM company owner.
>>
>> Mike Polk
>> Sagebrush Consultants
>> Ogden, Utah
>>
>>
>>
> Edward F. Heite
> Heite Consulting, Inc.
> Archaeologists and Historians
> P O Box 53, Camden, Delaware 19934
> www.heite.org
>